Have you won or been placed in a Homebrew competition lately? I know some of you have.

Are you happy to share your recipe?

If so then this section of the forum is where you can post them, let's see if we can get a good selection of successful competition beer recipes lined up, whether that be All Grain, or Kit brews, it would be good to know what you did to make the beer so good.

Full volume boil with 18g Styrian Goldings (3.8%) for 75 minutes. . . which was a balls up, it should have been Savinjski Goldings at 5.2% hence the lack of balance

Ferment at 18C with a good starter of WLP380 Hefe IV to get a nice balance between banana and clove.

OK so what needs to be done to take it from 31/32 points up to 45-50?

1) Get the right hops out of the freezer so you get some balance between sweet and bitter2) Modify the mash schedule to bring some more body into the beer, so 15 minutes at 38C, 30 minutes at 61C and 30 minutes at 71C3) Bottle it two weeks before the competition and naturally carbonate, not try filling a bottle from the keg with a length of 3/16" tube the day before you leave for the festival. so you get an appropriate degree of carbonation.

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Don't believe I'm posting this, but the tag line for this section has here's spelt as her's (Won a competition with your beer and happy to share the recipe, her's the place.).Just thought i'd point it out before any one else did

Cheers, Jon

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Oldstunty wrote:Don't believe I'm posting this, but the tag line for this section has here's spelt as her's (Won a competition with your beer and happy to share the recipe, her's the place.).Just thought i'd point it out before any one else did